On пт, 2004-01-30 at 21:43, Peter Wu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:06PM +0100, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > > lukas wrote: > > >On Friday 30 January 2004 05:02, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > > > > >It's sad that the internet is troubled by some weirdos who are > > >thinking that programming (or spreading) a virus is a real cool > > >thing. > > > > > > > Ooo yes, everything bad is good for something. > > > > One of virus purposes was to force M$hit to improve > > their crappy pseudo systems. We learned M$ is > > totally immune to such forces and really don't care > > about security and stability at all. > > (Only one thing is important INCOME.) > > Well, as a commericial company, Microsoft was founded to make money. So > do other companies, don't they? > > > This situation really forced ppl to do something > > with it ... and linux was born :-). > > Well, some of the recent worms are activated by end users open an > attachment, which could be an vbs or an executable. It is the executable > that infects the system as most Windows users log in as an Administrator > role. > > What if root on a Linux box open an attachment to a mail he receives today > and that attachment happens to be some executable that can ruin the > system? > As far as i know attachments in Linux are not executable, unless u made them such. Linux is much more security oriented by design. My opinion. > > Today viruses stimulate ppl switch to linux, and > > therefore are BIG catalysator for linux growth. > > I really doubt switching to Linux can stop virii from spreading. -- Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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